You'll either run with it or you won't, but you can be sure you've never seen anything quite like it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2020

The film makes up for... lapses with dazzling moments.

| Apr 29, 2020

Cinema is full, life is empty. Cinema is easy, life is mysterious. Perhaps that's Carax's message. Whatever it is, he has our attention.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2020

As wild and wayward as Carax's vision might appear... it touches recognisable human experience at enough points to sustain an emotional connection.

| Apr 28, 2020

These images and sounds that reveal the mind in matter and the soul in bodies suggest Carax's ultimate definition of the cinema, and it's one of the best and grandest that a movie has ever offered.

| Apr 28, 2020

Surreal and often disturbing and sometimes poignant and always mesmerizing. Mission accomplished.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 28, 2020

An electrifying, confounding, what-the-hell-just-happened exercise in unbounded imagination, unapologetic theatricality, bravura acting and head-over-heels movie-love.

| Apr 28, 2020

It's a love letter to the seventh art and exhibit A for making the case that enfants terribles don't get older - they just get weirder.

| Apr 28, 2020

It's a glorious, gross, absurd, haunting dream and deconstruction of identity that may enthrall like a symphony or annoy like a rash.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 28, 2020

Holy Motors is lively and entertaining, but every now and then I wished that Carax would commit to one route and follow it to the end.

| Aug 27, 2019

I was perplexed. I scratched my head. But I was never bored. This is a bizarre fantasy in which the director does what the hell he likes, yet it still somehow coheres.

| Sep 1, 2018

It is never dull.

| Jun 17, 2013

It's an ingenious, half-mad triumph, and exactly what we expect from outlier Carax-one decade at a time.

| Jun 17, 2013

By the time this film's over, you're shaken, intrigued and reminded that art doesn't need to add up to be entrancing.

| Original Score: A | Jan 24, 2013

For all its disruptive energy, Holy Motors is also a thing of sublime beauty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 7, 2012

A joyous experience.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Nov 29, 2012

Audiences who care about character and plot are liable to take the exit to a movie that makes sense.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 29, 2012

All this random action, Carax suggests, is for some vast, abstract audience anxious to lose itself in imagined narratives.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2012

This is the kind of it-can-mean-whatever-you-want-it-to-mean art film that I usually run from, but Carax is such a prodigiously gifted mesmerist that, if you give way, you're likely to be enfolded in the film's phantasmagoria.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 21, 2012

This is the most exhilarating cinema ride of 2012, a marvellously mobile mystery trip.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 15, 2012